HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: Manzanar’s Camouflage Net Factory Multimedia Presentation & Participatory Camo Net Weaving Workshop Saturday, July 18, 2026 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM 1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404 Free + Open to the Public, Registration required for Part 2 11AM Part 1 – A multimedia presentation on the short-lived and controversial camouflage net factory created in Manzanar in 1942. Featuring archival photos by distinguished photographer Dorothea Lange. 12PM Part 2 (Reservation required) – A fun, hands-on workshop for registered participants to weave on a free-style interpretation of a camouflage net! Co-facilitated by artists Hana van der Steur and Dan Kwong SPACE IS LIMITED to 20 PARTICIPANTS. RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW! Photo Credit: Workers in camouflage net factory, Manzanar 1942, Dorothea Lange – Library of Congress Bios: Co-facilitator Hana van der Steur is a multidisciplinary artist with wide-ranging interests in two and three-dimensional media, most recently, experimental ceramic sculpture. Her current projects explore the boundary between nature and artifice, and between real and imagined histories of place, from tourist attractions among the coastal redwoods to her grandmother’s home and studio in Silverlake. Hana co-facilitated the participatory site-specific camouflage net art installation at the inaugural Manzanar baseball doubleheader in 2024. She is the granddaughter of fiber artist Momo Nagano (1925-2010), who was an incarceree and camouflage net factory worker in Manzanar. Co-facilitator Dan Kwong is an award-winning performance artist and playwright/director/ documentary producer/community activist. He is Associate Artistic Director of multicultural performing arts organization Great Leap, Mentor Resident Artist at 18th Street Arts Center, and a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dan is founder and director of the Manzanar Baseball Project and has led the restoration of Manzanar’s baseball field since 2023. He is the son of fiber artist Momo Nagano. dkbb12@aol.com This program is presented by 18th Street Arts Center with a generous CAC Impact Grant, as part of the Manzanar Baseball Project directed by Dan Kwong and produced by Great Leap.
